By Fred Wilson—Nov 14, 2018

On the west side of Manhattan, from the west village, where we live, to the Javits Center on 34th Street and the west side highway, runs an abandoned elevated train track called The Highline. Eleven years ago, the Gotham Gal and I took a walk on the old Highline with Joshua David, one of the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Nov 14, 2018

My college education was a fairly perfect stereotype: I’m a white woman who studied journalism who married a white man who studied in a STEM field. Interestingly, while he’s the one who majored in biomedical engineering and computer engineering, I’m the one who wound up in tech. And after all these […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Nov 13, 2018

The New York Times is reporting that Amazon has officially chosen NYC and DC as the locations for its big planned expansion , known as HQ2. This is big news for NYC, as I wrote about last week . I would like to welcome Amazon to NYC. I think this is going to work out […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Bethany Crystal—Nov 13, 2018

I’ll never forget the first time I put on headphones for my CD player. I was in high school and I’m pretty sure the CD was Moulin Rouge, the movie musical with Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. In all likelihood I was at home in my bedroom and I put on that first track of […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Nov 12, 2018

I keep little things that remind me of events over my career in venture capital. And I have been doing that for most of those thirty plus years. I keep them on a bookshelf I have in my office at USV. It started with the lucite “tombstones” that bankers would make up when a deal […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Nov 12, 2018

NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section looks at the effects a Universal Basic Income (UBI) might have on the labor market. One of the many attractive features of a UBI is that it doesn’t do away with people’s ability to sell their labor. Suppose someone […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)